69 Cal. App. Supp. 2d 814 - People v. Postma’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2003
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on The People v. Monroe · Commonwealth v. Kentucky Jockey Club · Engle v. State of Arizona · Utah State Fair Ass'n v. Green · People Ex Rel. Lawrence v. . Fallon
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under our statute, three element? are necessary to constitute a lottery: (1) The disposition of property, — the prize — , (2) upon a contingency determined by chance, (3) to a person who has paid or promised to pay a valuable consideration for the chance of winning the prize, and upon the understanding that it will be disposed of by chance. People v. Hecht, 1931, 119 Cal.App.Supp. 778 , 784, 3 P.2d 399 ; People v. Cardas, 1933, 137 Cal.App.Supp. 788 , 790, 28 P.2d 99 ; People v. Babdaty, 1934, 139 Cal.App.Supp. 791 , 793, 30 P.2d 634 ; Niccoli v. McClelland, 1937, 21 Cal.App.2d Supp. 759, 762, 763 , 65 P.2d 853 . If any of these elements is lacking, there is no lottery. People v. Hecht, supra.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.